17 Sep 1892
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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1892
Page
1
Local newspaper note from the Saturday issue shows the Journal being issued weekly with office at South Spring Street and publisher O. Odell.
The excerpt discusses yawning as possibly curative for throat ailments, notes John Greenleaf Whittier as a youthful shoemaker who defied old adages, and references Russell Sage with a remark about a white bat seen during New York troops’ Broadway march home.
In France three men competed to drink water and swallowed twelve quarts, nine quarts, and seven quarts respectively. All three died from the water intoxication, highlighting the dangers of excessive intake.
Five Germans four Americans three Preneh men and the Enerlishimen have completed the Isv2 ascent of Mont Blanc. The feat marks a notable milestone in high altitude climbing across nationalities.
Manion Terhunes manages a large poultry yard at her home in Sunnyvale Branel NL. She personally cares for the laying hens and young chicks, taking a close interest in every detail of the operation.
Ern Dios, once a Giard outfielder tied to Sue Weds, is described as a home island resident on Ward's Island. He spent about five years as a private patient in Bloomedale, later living in a pauper asylum setting.
A garbled passage discusses speculative forecasts and names Nancy Hanks in a puzzling, unclear context. The fragment references yearly targets and vague plans, with scattered words about horses and travel in a strained, nonrealistic tone.
A man in Sawitzer’s lane creates a walking clock with a Swiss talking shock and a phonograph in his room. The invention promises companionship for bachelors who feel lonely at night as they wind it up before bed.
A plan proposes building a railroad from Washington to Mount Vernon to improve access. The Mecca of the Amervan people, Moenr Vitex, has long depended on steamboat travel, and the new railway would change transit dynamics.
A New York girl named Annid Minuka sails on her second global trip. She departed from New York for San Francisco and traveled via Vapi oared Tandia Sues Brindisi and Lotion to Near York. This voyage proceeds eastward with solo travel and self supplied cargo.
In a provocative claim a Soviet era piece argues that excessive tea and cigarette use among Russian women drives higher criminal activity. It asserts women rarely part with a cigarette and the samovar perpetually boils at home, linking these habits to elevated crime rates.
W. McGir addresses AAAS members arguing life on Earth spans fifteen million years, a figure that may be inflated by a factor of ten to a thousand, according to the professor.
The exhibit features seventy nine portraits of Columbus with many originals. Several places claim his birthplace and associated panes or relics will be displayed. Photographs depict all connected to Columbus along with related artifacts and houses.
In Queretario Cucar Mexico soap serves as legal tender for debts. Cakes about the size of Windsor are valued at about three farthings each. Each cake bears the town name and the official who manufactures and utters it, and money from one town does not circulate in another.
Prov. Gooowin Swit argues that London has reached about 1,000,000 inhabitants and is rapidly growing driven by a global passion for emigration. He notes people move from country to town seeking wealth, jobs, excitement and perceived enjoyment across America and Europe.
A New Hampshire village tale recounts a hotelkeeper who pretended to employ a staff of servants and a chief. He served toast in a deep bass, then stepped outside and delivered a message in falsetto to elicit a reply from the imagined staff. Guests were amused as the ruse played out with calm humor.
In Ounanco Mex on Sept 10 a state bank agent escorted $10,000 in gold to Mazatlan via Guaymas. The party of five guards was ambushed fifty miles south of here. two guards died and all others were killed except one who escaped to the mountains after twelve hours. Authorities pursue the robbers with troops aided by a courier.
The fragment notes a quarantine site at Abram & Wew itt minces Pumpstand under health officers. It places DPium Psland at Lane stand's eastern edge, six miles from Girdent, twelve from ¢ port, and thirteen from Lac Pir hor. The island spans about five hundred acres with one building and a lighthouse, and Gaeliner's bay offers rough access. harbor for vessels is limited.
In Hamburg this Friday L. Goldstacker rushed into the Hamburg American Co office with tears, demanding the release of his mother and two brothers held on the ship Normannia. He spoke of shooting Dr. Jenkins as clerks tried to quiet him before he appealed to the quarantine commissioners.
The 644 Fellows Turn report notes Chicago on Sept 10 with hotels filling as Odd Fellows from across the nation prepare for the sixty eighth annual meeting in Wort land Oregon starting Sept 19. Grand Sire Charles M Husby arrives in Chicago and is greeted by Lieut Gen John Underwood. Deputy Grand Sire QT Campbell arrives from London Ontario.
New York September 16 Counselor Anthony Barrett appeared before Osborne Brooklyn city court Friday to argue the adjourned motion to show cause why the judgment obtained by John H Vallette against ex champion pugilist John D L Sullivan by default should not be opened Wallette claimed pay for services as advance agent for Sullivan from October 14 to December 24 1959.
The state board of health plans a seacoast patrol to stop cholera from infesting the state. After the Moravia pillow finding the precaution is approved. Wreckage and debris on the coast will be burned and any person attempting to land from infected steamers will be stopped.
The Cunard Line steamer Marathon departed Queenstown on Friday bound for New York in the trans Atlantic emigrant service. She carried only 54 emigrants on board and her bedding and baggage were not disinfected.
During a Wild West show in Durand James Fisher was shot and fatally wounded while watching cowboys fire seemingly blank cartridges. A further arrest order was issued for the entire company.
Anarchist Bergman, who attempted to assassinate H. Frick, told reporters in a Friday interview that life holds little value if his sentence extends beyond ten years. He warned he would kill himself rather than endure twenty or thirty years behind bars plus a chance at liberty later.
A Fitchburg railroad wreck near West Cambridge Junction on Saturday night killed six instantly and left about forty wounded, three later dying. Emergency response from Cambridge and Boston included surgeons and a special train. debris and bodies were gathered by early Sunday, with blame directed at likely locomotive loss of control on a thirty car freight train hauling lumber.
Sanitary authorities from Ohio Pennsylvania and West Virginia met in TMtranuey to devise methods to prevent cholera spread at state lines. The discussion highlighted rail and steamboat inspections and a lack of funding in Pennsylvania, prompting a request for a temporary emergency fund of up to 50 000 to ward off Asiatic cholera.
Pittsburen Pa Sept 12 The river coal operators in the Pittsburgh district announce a mining rate cut to three cents per bushel from three and a half. An order closing mines until miners accept the reduction will throw seven eight thousand men out of work.
Paris reports Prof Haifkine of the Pasteur Institute confirms experiments on himself and colleagues show the anti cholera vaccine is without danger and provides six days immunity after inoculation.
Wm Pararon, a 21 year old brakeman on the Chicago and Southwestern railway, fell from his train entering the city limits. He landed on rocks by Prairie Creek and died an hour after the accident. It was his first run and he was the sole support of his widow.
Secretary Probst reported that health boards from Ohio Pennsylvania West Virginia and others agreed that emigrants entering the state should receive a health certificate from a competent national authority. The certificate would state examiner name emigrant details detention duration and ports of shipment and entry. If acceptable, entry allowed. otherwise quarantine. A floating cholera hospital was opposed. an inspection hospital outside city limits may be used. A Piqua case of Stuttgart arrivals was guarded as a precaution with five other migrants being traced.
In New York on Sept 13 two Presbyterian hospital nurses Miss Ilelen E Hill and Miss Alice P Lyon volunteered at Swinburne Island to nurse cholera patients. The Jesuit Fathers and Salvation Army follow with plans to deploy church workers to assist in the field against the outbreak.
About 3,500 people remain in quarantine as authorities report eighteen days of control. Forecasts suggest up to 10,000 will need care at the gates of New York as emigration continues.
A special train carried Tr Trudeau of the Sanitarium from Loonlake to Saranac Lake for Mrs Harrison whose condition worsened. Doctor Gardner, her physician, was at Leon Lake, while the patient remained reticent about her health.
In Gerlin on Sept 15 the cholera outbreak in Hamburg drives hundreds of Italian workers back to Italy. Fresh cases emerge in infected districts and the disease remains sporadic in spread, raising fears of cross border transmission.
Two car loads of German and Italian imami grants traveling between Windsor and Niagara Falls since Friday crossed into Dernair Michigan and began west on the Wabash after being released by state health authorities on Sunday.
Dispatch from Loxpon reports the cholera outbreak in Russia has less virulence overall, with Odessa still free from the disease except for the Don country, the Terek district, and a few Molten governments still affected.
Most miners involved in the riotous demonstrations at Coal Creek and Oliver Springs have left the area or found work elsewhere. Mine operators now bar workers who refuse to sign contracts to avoid strikes and agitators in the future.
Delegates meeting in Indianapolis failed to achieve progress on reorganizing the Iron Hall. Frank Towns of Philadelphia was nominated for supreme justice as committees reported no clear results. Judge Taylor favors the reform if honest managers are chosen, but current assets are in receivership and awaiting Supreme Court action.
Ohio health officials suspend emigrant inspections at Toledo and Sandusky as the United States Marine Service agrees to assume charge of quarantine. Health Officer Fisher reports the Marines declined to provide personnel or day labor for inspection. A New York port batch was due in Toledo Tuesday night for possible inspection and disinfection by state authorities if Marine control is not thorough.
New York Herald Paris cable reports a correspondent in Paris who has been inoculated with a new anti-cholera virus. Pasteur hails the discovery as world changing. The writer notes cholera microbes in his body from Saigon victims and plans further inoculations.
New York health officials denied any cholera cases in the city on Tuesday. Health Commissioner Bryant said two or three suspected cases were under investigation but not believed to be cholera. Chief Inspector Roberts confirmed investigations into suspected cases and attributed no confirmed cholera.
The Homestead workmen held to the grand jury on charges of murder aggravated riot and conspiracy will not begin in the criminal court until the first week in October. Fifty five men have been held with multiple charges against some. Many arrests remain to be made including numerous women facing disorderly conduct and inciting riot charges.
A balloon passing over Passenheim on Tuesday frightened villagers who feared the plague cholera as peasants knelt groaning and fled when the aeronauts landed. They claimed to have seen Death with a scythe in the air car.
The evolution of Fren Hall affairs received a new impulse with a real estate transfer. Supreme Chief Justice F. D. Somerby sold to N. B. Herbert for $7,590 a dwelling house on a 25 by 100 foot lot at the northwest corner of Thirty second and Spring Garden streets.
A woman living alone on Rue de Fladrean was found dead after a four week disappearance. Neighbors reported a rocked door and a terribly decomposed body discovered by callers on Monday, indicating death occurred some time prior.
Tippecanoe county commissioners order 15000 to ward a fund for securing the state soldiers home in the county. Franklin reports alarming epidemic with many deaths. Printing press factory secured for 85000 at Elkuart. Chicago investors back Alexandria boom. Marmont saloon owners to close Sundays. Five year old burns to death at Penua. rescue attempts injure Mrs. Marion Redman. T. S. Massry dies from fall injuries. aged 99, Indiana veteran of 1812. Snee the mason dies in Anderson saloon after heavy drinking. Locals jailed for train wreck complicity near Kokomo. Fall races set for Columbus Sept 20. Indianapolis councilman Wat Wilson enacts peculiar hat-burning wager for Sullivan. Moriarty woman commits suicide aged 19 in Washington. Mrs. Francisca Macrice sues for divorce and alimony. Indiana Connelly sues for damages. Blair park purchased by syndicate to build a major summer resort. Tramps injured in Brazil freight collision. sawmill accident at Mitchell. Mullen saw mill boiler explodes at New Castle, fatalities and injuries. Carrier pigeon captured at Lawrenceburg with silver band. Logansport hosts bicycle picnics. Soldiers reunion planned at Frankfort. Muncie housing demand exceeds supply. Dems in Indianapolis mark Thomas Hendricks birthday with Attlee Adlai Stevenson speaker. Seymour murder case indicts Frank McCormick. Doerr case likely clarified. Fortville natural gas company organized. Hammond residents confined in Europe due to cholera. Seymour Masonic lodge attended fair. Dr Newkirk and F. M. Swope struck by apoplexy. East Madison man drowns in tub. New Castle poet Gene Belgaum S. Parker seriously injured.
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